Okay, I admit it. The statement was probably incorrect. I should have said MANY PC gamers are entitled.
Probably incorrect? Are you saying that is only
probably at least one non-entitled PC gamer out there?
Ugh, again with the blanket statements. "Many" is a word with meaning... Now apparently if you meet a PC gamer, changes are that they are entitled. Lovely. Statistics? Nope. They just are, because you think so. End of story.
Let's talk about being entitled for a minute though. Based on personal experience, I have found that gamer's are after nothing less than perfectionism. Some people expect the very best from developers, often more than they can actually deliver. I understand wanting to make a better game, and I also understand constructive criticism, but when some people bring nothing but "fix game plox!" it drives me a little insane. This is even worse when the complaints are minor, such as a typo or small bug (like an animation not working) and they claim that the game is terrible until said bug is fixed.
So you read some reviews on Metacritic and decided that that reflects most PC gamers? Gamers don't demand perfection, they are sour at Ubisoft because they have not been able to play their games. Or they have, and lost hours of gameplay because of the DRM breaking for whatever reason. DRM which served no function and accomplished nothing other then to bump up the price or detract away from the game. How many people complain about a small typo? An animation not working can be more than a small bug depending on the game system (since some games use the animation info to determine event info). I think it is reasonable that if you charge 90$ for a game, that at least the animations work properly. As for the "Fix game plox!", they are geneally kids/trolls, and you can't possibly take their crude compaints and act as if they somehow reflect the majority of PC gamers (again, statistics?)
Ubi have removed the painful parts of the DRM because people asked them to do so (It was probably impacting their profits too). Now people are complaining at Ubi still for.... some reason. I actually don't know. Just past grudges I guess.
Ubisoft, being a company, removed the DRM because it was not profitable. Because those "entitled" gamers were refusing to buy their games, and/or the DRM was costing too much. They did NOT do it because people asked them to do so. Thinking that would be egotistic.
Perhaps people hold a grudge becase they produce mediocre games? Or perhaps past experiences have led them to suspect that Ubisoft have something else up their sleeve. Surely these point remains valid even after they abandoned this DRM. For some reason, your statement seems to suggest that there are no other valid reasons to compain about Ubisoft.
There really is no need to whine about them anymore. If you don't want to buy their games because they were idiots towards the PC community, that is OK. If you still hate them over what they have done, that is OK. But Ubi are doing something, and perhaps encouraging them to keep this up rather than barking at them would work better?
That would be true if the DRM was the only issue people had with them, as there would be no more issues with Ubisoft. Then there would be nothing to whine about. But some people had and still have
other issues with Ubisoft. This statement assumes that most PC gamers either
A) are still sour for no reason (statistics?) OR
B) Now, for some reason have had other compaints they may have invalidated for some reason somehow.
Imagine someone that did not like Ubisoft because their games were mediocre, and their DRM was awful (me, for example). Now the DRM is not an issue... they
still suck. Perhaps a little less, but in this case all the DRM-removal did was remove the barrier to play mediocre games. Horay. So there is reason to "whine" about them for some. Valid reasons.
Ubisoft is not a child. Saying "Keep up the good work!" wont give them the self-esteem they need to make better games.
My point is that complaining about something that was fixed upon your own request is pretty... dumb. It is working as intended, yet some still can't seem to appreciate it. Surely if you still hate it after so many months and you hate the games associated with this DRM, you would have left by now...
Let's just let it settle and see if Ubisoft can keep up the good work.
No one is compaining about the now-nonexistant DRM (only perhaps speculating about what-next). Show me someone complaining about the now fixed DRM (Except, you know, the people who are still suffering it because they haven't actually
removed it yes, since it's just words at this point)? You seem to have decided that all critism directed towards Ubisoft was solely over the DRM. That would have been the "flag-ship" issue, but it was not the only one.
Imagine buying some-Ubisoft-DRM-Game, and not being able to play it reliably because your internet is imperfect/Ubisoft servers are having a bad day. Now imagine that they have now removed it, years later. You would not "appreciate" that. Your $90 game should have been playable from day 1. The removal of the DRM is good, but it should not have been there in the first place. I dont consider it "good work", I consider it "about bloody time, now perhaps they may also start making decent games".
When people form groups in their heads such as "PC gamers", the criteria for being part of this group tends to be also formed by the same person. Since that person has decided that "All X are Y", most people they see acting as Y become X. Without a proper definition of what is a PC gamer (facebook game once a week? 18 hours/day, where imbetween etc), a definition of what an entitled/elitist one is, and statistics from that group, your statement that "MANY PC gamers are entitled" is pretty much meaningless.
When I said "Now apparently if you meet a PC gamer, changes are that they are entitled" It should probably have read "Now apparently if you meet someone who you judge to be entitled/elitist and may play PC games, they are a PC gamer. But if you meet a pretty-good-guy and they may play PC games, they are not, because the human brain does a pretty good job of silently ignoring anything that goes agains't it's conclusion (this is one of the reasons we have this wonderful discipline called statistics)".
tl;dr: Still ignorant, and without any real meaning. Not a shread of evidence. Too much time on Metacritic's User Score.
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